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Optimizing Geospatial Data Pipelines

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How would you optimize a data pipeline for processing large geospatial datasets?

Discuss a practical design covering ingestion, spatial partitioning, distributed transformations, storage formats, batch and streaming workloads, and orchestration. Explain how you would handle coordinate-system normalization, spatial joins, skewed regions, late or duplicate records, incremental loads, backfills, and data-quality validation. Include concrete technology choices, representative implementation code, monitoring metrics, failure recovery, and trade-offs between query performance, storage cost, and processing latency.